Security of the Sovereign Act 1714
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The Security of the Sovereign Act (1 Geo. I. St. 2, c. 13.) was a 1714 Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act required all civil and military officers; members of colleges; teachers; preachers; and lawyers to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and of abjuration of the Pretender.[1]
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- ^ Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 641.